This has been a really shitty year for me .

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anyone else ?

― anthony, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nope, been a pretty neutral year for me. Some good, some bad - mostly to people I know and family. Nothing has really happened to me at all.

― Pete, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This has taken the new prize for the worst year I've ever lived through. Fortunately, it will also be my last.

― the living joke, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hope you mean the last shitty year, not last year.

― Dr. C, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

me too.

― katie, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey Kate, I wuv oo and all, but I know you would never do anything like that, so I won't comment.

Anthony, I am personally offended.

― Graham, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what did i do ?

― anthony, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"This has been a really shitty year for me, except for meeting all those lovely lovely people on ILE ."

― Graham, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Its been a fairly bad year for me as well, but not for any ostensible reason, just because I have maintained a fairly morose mood throughout. However it has been brightened by meeting new people and ditching some old ones, and of course my new ILE addiction. I dont expect my next year to be any worse or better than this one; if I did expect it to be better it would fall painfully short of my hopes. So here's to my pathetic life and lack of achievements... :)

― Menelaus Darcy, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There were ups, down and all arounds. It is life.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Worst since 1994, I think.

― N., Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's been an unbelievably bad year, not so much for me, but for people around me, and that takes its emotional toll on me. I'm feeling strangely hopeful, though - maybe because of Argentina.

― Kerry, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've had quite a good year so far. Sorry.

― DG, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It all depends what I choose to focus on really. Although in common with many others, this year has yielded a decidedly higher-than-usual crop of misfortune.

If I had to sum up this year using just one word, that word would have to be "emotional".

What word would you choose?

― Trevor, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hazy

― Jonnie, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tiring

― katie, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Weird, loads of amazing stuff happenned this year but I don't actually feel any better. hmmm.

― Graham, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think anthony had it right with 'shitty'

― N., Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Repressed. STUCK.

― Ellie, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bad bits: 2nd spate of depression. Good bits: Moving on, finishing a- levels, being content.

― Bill, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Draining. Unreal. Hazy. Up. Down.

― helenfordsdale, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think despite the last weeks events this year has been really good for me, albeit on a pretty material level. Passing exams, getting into college, meeting lots of nice people.

― Ronan, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If material success is the best thing that happened this year, then that's no bad thing at all. Same here really. It's best to linger on the good bits, whatever they may be.

I know I don't really know any of you, but I hope you all have a better year in 2002. Believing you will is often half the battle won.

'Bye for now.

― Trevor, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ITS BEEN A GOOD YEAR FOR ME, I FELL IN LOVE

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't remember when this year started, it's just like every other year. Man, that's depressing. But, I guess, I just want don't want to think "this was a good year" or "this was a bad year"...it's just self-defeating, I would say there have been good times this year, okay times, boring times, the odd moment of self-doubt etc...But, I refuse from this day forward to say X was a bad year.

jel = x-mas sentimental.

― james, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nothingy.

― DavidM, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

repetitive but broadening

― Maria, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This year has been my most shitty ever. A horrible death in the family & my mum's liver failed (she had a transplant, it was really horrible) & that was just the worst of it. I got fucked over by some people I though I could trust. I hope 2002 will be better for me and for all of you too, even if yr year 2001 was OK, like.

― Norman Phay, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

best wishes for 2002 foax -2001 - ugh

― , Saturday, 22 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ignore what I said before. I've turned my year around with a 10 days to go. Phew! Objectively, still a terrible year, but it's all about the frame of mind one ends it on, right? Feeling amazingly positive and strong. Bless you all.

― N., Saturday, 22 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This was a good year for me overall, although more bad things happened to me this year than have happened since I graduated from college. Actually, it's amazing that I haven't been more depressed this year, considering I lost a grandparent and went through a stressful, unplanned period of unemployment (plus a bunch of smaller tensions which are insignificant on their own but coupled with the big two were really awful).

― Dan Perry, Saturday, 22 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

damn you nick you bastard.

― Ronan, Saturday, 22 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

things could pick up, i might score someone elses date at my debutante ball. or mine!!!!!!!!

― Ronan, Saturday, 22 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dropped out of university cos I am a stupid madnut, I had to get a mediocre job because I couldn't think of anything else to do and needed the money, I'm stuck in it because I STILL need the money... sigh. I had a relationship but screwed me about but NOW I AM IN A HAPPY ONE hoorah so there are good things and bad things but on the whole about ten twelves of it was a bit poop. Apart from being in the pub with some of you lot, of course. Cheers!

― Sarah, Saturday, 22 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had a really good year and meeting all of you enhanced it very much :)

CLOUD 9 This is me walking on cloud 9!_ _ _ _ _ __

― Gale Deslongchamps, Saturday, 22 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More or less okay, making massive effort to make next one better in ways I'll maybe discuss later if they pan out.

Kerry: in what sense does the Argentinean situation make you hopeful? Are you reading this is a "throwing off the yoke of global capitalism" thing, and therefore good in the long run? Not that my knowledge of it is all the extensive, but there seems like a strong possibility of massive loan default and a massive blow to all efforts at economic modernization. Which, as you've probably noticed in other threads, I take as a generally negative development.

― Nitsuh, Saturday, 22 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As for Argentina, a close friend who lives in Buenos Aires has been posting to me about her fears, mentioning nearby lootings and other things close to where she is. I wouldn't call that particularly hopeful...

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All sorts of bad things could happen in the next eight days, and a handful of good ones too. (A measure of my stability, that most unexpected events I can imagine are bad). So ask me then. Interim report = OK.

― Tom, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ARGHHH I am bored and unhappy. No-one is posting round here! where are you my pretties? And why has my year been so traumatising when nothing (except finding out I come from a Freemason family) has really happened? Does this mean I am shallow and selfish or that I can be legitimately discontent with my rather boring, dull and isolated stasis?

― Menelaus Darcy, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Unlike last year (starting at strange uni, coming out, discovering relationships, one of my best friends dying suddenly etc.), 2002 was largely stress free and generally pleasant. Got a better job, stayed in good relationship, found uni a challenge and managed to rise to it. Plus I've realised how many awesome friends I've made these last two years - particularly the girls, many of whom overwhelm me with their intelligence and warmth. Placidity hasn't been good for my creativity, but otherwise there wasn't too much to complain about. All of which is not to piss on everyone here, but it's nice to have a fresh knowledge that bad years can be followed by good ones.

― Tim, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Finding out that you come from a freemasons family is a grand accomplishment! Breaking up/getting together, getting jobs - pah! I'd rather know that my father was a champion in orienteering. These are the true lineages! What's the point in measuring your year along the same fatal indices as everybody else? The highlight of the year for me was staying in a hotel with a TV attached to the ceiling.

― charles, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Amrok ggyek reytan willoxia plowdariankas umra blaaukinrem saulisiave te alkci kenco knaof.

(It's been weird but things are looking up!)

― Anne Heche, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I tremble at the thought of the university that challenges The Boy Wonder from Down Under! Unless, Tim, you're taking this course in electrical engineering which doesn't involve writing about pop music at all.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mitch, I've only managed to write one essay about pop music this year ("Custom Made: Lil' Kim and Manufacturing Desire"), which was for politics, but sadly Law isn't an area where you can make up for shortfallings simply by adding a few paragraphs (see Skykicking...), so I had to study a bit for the exams. The two hundred pages of theorising a week policy of Post-Marxist Critical Theory was stimulating as well.

― Tim, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It started out pretty crappy for me but made a turn for the better in the spring. there were awful things that happened in the world this year but there are always ugly things that people do to each other and you have to try and learn from them and make your part of the world a better place.

Now my year is ending on a high note as I have a wonderful loving guy in my life. other areas are looking up as well. yay. here's to a great 2002 for everyone!

― Samantha, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i can't honestly decide if 2001 was worse than 2000. but they both sucked the royal cock, decked out with all the trimmings. 2001 december = infinitely better than 2000 dec. for obv. reasons but that's cold comfort at best. small moments and times of happiness, bliss even, but longer stretches of plateaued depression and some truly harrowing moments of despair as well. all in all, such is life, as ned said. my bad years often owe as much to my own wheel- spinning as outside influence. life's whatcha make of it and all that. the fact that i managed to survive what i thought was an insurmountable loss is enough to keep me pushing on, even slowly, day by day.

― jess, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This year i have certainly lived in Interesting times, it has been a crazy rollercoaster of a yera but after a bad autumn things are definately looking up.

― Ed, Tuesday, 25 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

2001 was the worst year of my life in some respects. but it wasn't all bad i suppose. 2002 will be better, methinks.

― di, Wednesday, 26 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I've only come home just now, and I don't care to defend a tossed off comment that I made, oh, like a week ago. If people fucking understood what I am going through, they wouldn't try to make a fucking annoying 'detached' debate about it. It is really fucking hard going home for xmas and hearing your parents beg people on the phone so that they can continue their health care, etc, so that they don't DIE. If you were afraid your parents were just going to rot and die, you'd be sympathetic to people demanding economic justice, too. You'd also be sympathetic to the looters. And don't bother responding to this - it will only come off smug and annoy the living fuck out of me.

― Kerry, Wednesday, 26 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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